Incumbent president Moi was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 presidential elections. Some of his supporters floated the idea of amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term, but Moi preferred to retire, choosing
Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's
first president, as his successor. In protest of Moi's decision, a group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants quit KANU and formed the
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In preparation for the 2002 elections, Kibaki's Democratic Party affiliated with several other opposition parties, including the LDP and
National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK), to form the
National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). On 14 October 2002, at a large opposition rally in
Uhuru Park in
Nairobi, Kibaki was nominated as the NARC candidate after
Raila Odinga declared
Kibaki Tosha! (Kibaki is the one!). ==Results==